Music Appreciation Final

what is placed at the beginning of a staff to show the exact pitch of each line and space?

clef

a polyphonic composition based on one main theme is the

fugue

tonality is another term for

key

instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ______________ period

late baroque

the text, or book of a musical dramatic work is called the

libretto

what is an apparatus that produces ticking sounds or flashes of light at any desired musical speed?

metronome

the texture of a single melodic line without accompaniment is ?

monophonic

when two or more melodic lines of equal interest are performed simultaneously, the texture is ?

polyphonic

the two giants of baroque composition were George Frederic Handel and

Johann Sebastian Bach

the first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in

Venice

melody may be defined as

a series of single notes which add up to a recognizable whole

the renaissance, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years,

1450-1600

the baroque period in western music is usually given as

1600-1750

classicism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years

1750-1820

romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years

1820-1900

the piano has how many keys

88

George Frederic Handel was born in 1685, the same year as

Bach

oratorio differs from opera in that it has no

acting, scenery, or costumes

music can be defined as?

an art based on the organization of sounds in time

the first, or stressed, beat of a measure is known as the?

downbeat

the four main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and?

duration

the organization of musical ideas in time is called

form

the main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the

harpsichord

when there is one main melody accompanied by chords, the texture is

homo phonic

musical texture refers to

how many different layers of sound are heard at the same time. what kind of layers of sound are heard (melody or harmony). how layers of sound are related to each other

an ________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action

opera

Handel's Messiah is an example of

oratorio

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

serving a wealthy aristocratic family

in musical notation, pitches are written on a set of a five horizontal lines called?

staff

harmony refers to

the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other

composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by

writing dance music for music balls, writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed aristocracy, flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music